Why?
China could by any Russian type and have it in 2 years. The Y-20 will need probably 6 years or more to EIS.
At what price ??? An even longer dependence, most likely again the same problems with deliveries, cost, …. see several other similar contracts or the already done Il-76/-78 contract some years ago. 🙁
What is so aerodynamically advanced on the Y-20? Better wing profile helps drag at design Mach number. Apart from that, I can’t see a big improvement.
Even if my layman-eya can’t judge that like You, but is that necessary to be a revolulionary design ?? Like I said I probably can’t decide if the aerodynamics are much more advanced or only ‘on par’, but actuall I can’t think of performances lower or worse than the Il-76MD.
I think the Y-20 will be severely MTOW-limited until it gets a new engine. Basically useless. This indicates that the Chinese aiming at a rather long test campaign.
Yes, but again, why means limited = “basically useless” ?? Especially if it offeres similar or only slightly better – as You say – performances even with the interim engines and only slightly improved airframe. Anyway I can’t think of lower performance in comparison to the standard Il-76MD, especially since it uses the same engines … :confused:
IMO the most important aspect is the wider fuselage …
Deino
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